Dreadnaught: Difference between revisions

|role = Flagship<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Cabal#Ghost_Fragment:_Cabal_3|Ghost Fragment: Cabal 3]]''{{Quote|I’m ordered to board and capture the Hive flagship. At any cost.|[[Primus Ta'aun]]}}</ref>

|location = [[Saturn]]'s Rings<br>[[Ascendant realm]] (formerly)

|hostile races = [[Cabal]] ([[Skyburners]])<br>[[Hive]] ([[Blood of Oryx]]) <br> [[Taken]]

The '''Dreadnaught''' is a massive [[Hive]] spaceship that serves as the throne world of [[Oryx, the Taken King]], who came to the [[Solar System]] to enact his revenge against the [[Guardian]]s for killing his [[Crota, Son of Oryx|son]].<ref name = "PD">[http://planetdestiny.com/taken-king-analysis/ '''Planet Destiny''': ''The Taken King Trailer Analysis'']</ref> Accompanied by a fleet of [[Hive warship]]s and [[Tombship]]s, the Dreadnaught entered into orbit around [[Saturn]] after having been [[Battle of Saturn|stalled]] by the [[Awoken]], and stayed there for the rest of the [[Taken War]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard''</ref>

According to an analysis by [[Ghost]], the Dreadnaught may pre-date the formation of the [[Earth]], making it at least 4.54 billion years old.<ref name="Regicide">'''Bungie (2015-9-18)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], Activision Blizzard, [[Story]] mission: [[Regicide]]''</ref><ref>[http://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/ghost-scan-oryx '''Ishtar Collective''' - ''Ghost Scan: Oryx'']</ref><ref group="note">It should be noted that Ghost may have been dating Akka's corpse instead, as the Worm gods have mentioned they were imprisoned upon [[Fundament]] by the [[Traveler]] and the [[Leviathan (creature)|Leviathan]] for millions of years, and that they self-describe themselves as massive creatures symbiotic with thousands of living beings. If this is the case then the true age of the Dreadnaught, and by extension Oryx himself, is in doubt.</ref>

Oryx decided to construct the Dreadnaught to house his throne world from beyond the [[Ascendant realm]] after a [[Vex]] incursion accidentally caused by his son, [[Crota]], demonstrated its vulnerability. In doing so, he evaded an ambush from [[Xivu Arath]].<ref name="XL"/><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXVIII:_The_partition_of_death|XXXVIII: The partition of death]]''</ref> He carved it from a piece of Akka and crafted armor for it using the Hammer of Xivu Arath and the Scalpel of [[Savathûn]], both stolen. Finally, he everted his world into the ship's interior in an act that required a verse from the Tablets of Ruin and the combined efforts of his entire [[Court of Oryx|Court]]. Once it was completed, his first act with it was to attack the [[Nicha Thought-ship]] and the [[Harmonious Flotilla Invincible]] that defended it.<ref name="XLI"/> While the Flotilla was easily destroyed by the Dreadnaught's death impulse weapon, the Thought-ship proved to be a trap set by [[Quria, Blade Transform]], who launched a second invasion of Oryx's throne, but was quickly defeated.<ref name="XL"/>

Years before the [[Pyramids]] arrived within the Solar System, the [[Fallen]] [[House of Kings]] led a salvage operation on the Dreadnaught to steal "Hive magic," from it. They were successful but were slain by the Vex as they sought what they had claimed on the Dreadnaught for themselves. They were able to simulate the salvage through candies, masks and weapons.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Quest Description: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/a-cunning-mask A Cunning Mask]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Quest Description: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/a-masked-treasure A Masked Treasure]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Quest Description: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/apocryphal-accomplice Apocryphal Accomplice]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Quest Description: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/a-smiling-mask A Smiling Mask]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Quest Description: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/masks-upon-masks Masks Upon Masks]''</ref>

The Dreadnaught's hull is carved out of a segment from the corpse of the [[Worm]] god [[Akka, the Worm of Secrets|Akka]],<ref name="XLI"/> whom Oryx had previously slain in order to learn the power to [[Take]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXVIII:_King_of_Shapes|XXVIII: King of Shapes]]''</ref> Oryx turned the High War "inside out" by tying it into the structure of the Dreadnaught.<ref name="XLI"/> In effect, his throne world has become the Dreadnaught and vice versa, becoming physically mobile and thus more difficult to attack.<ref name="XLI"/><ref>[http://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/harrowed-darkhollow-mask-2 '''Ishtar Collective''' - ''Harrowed Darkhollow Mask'']</ref>  

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